GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 15 — Indigenous Guatemalans burned incense and made offerings at an ancestral site to say goodbye Saturday to Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias, whose ashes were returned to his homeland from France half a century after his death.
The lawyer, writer and diplomat known for denouncing dictators and defending the Indigenous received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
He lived in Paris before he died in Spain aged 74 in 1974, during the last years of the Franco dictatorship.
A dark green urn with the novelist’s remains – shaped like a kernel of corn – arrived Thursday by his son, Miguel Angel Asturias Amado.
